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Thursday, May 22, 2025

The man got trumped


Yesterday, President Trump's rude behavior toward the President of South Africa was worse than rude--it was despicable, AND his charges were both foul and false. Whatever materials he used to make his point were wrong--white farmers are not in any way, shape, or form are victims of racial genocide. He's just wrong about that. If it weren't so awful, it would be laughable. Yes, there is crime--and the records show levels of violent crime to be significantly higher than it is here; but those levels are vastly worse among South African Blacks than Whites or Colored (mixed race). 

What's more, our dear President's brash tongue-lashing of another country's leader shows his dreadful lack of historical understanding. He appears to know nothing of South Africa's racial history or of its apartheid past, when the law not only favored the country's white minority, it discriminated, by statute, against its own South African black majority.

South African demographics are amazing. The country's total population is just under 70 million people, 80% of whom call themselves "African" and can be judged racially as being black. White populations number far, far less--as low as five million; a third category, "Colored (mixed race) actually slightly outnumber the White population. 

Any discussion of crime in South Africa has to include some reference to race. 

Consider this: Native American populations in this country tend to have higher crime rates, higher rates of drug use, alcoholism, broken marriages. Native people in this country make up less than ten percent of the population. Now, given the history of Native populations in this country, suppose the racial levels were somehow equivalent here--80 percent of country was Native American and roughly ten percent were White, whose ancestors simply moved into the country and took it and its riches. Might we expect that there would be considerably higher crime rates in this country, not because some races simply are more criminal (racists like to believe that), but because the history of violence and repression has made the Native people, overwhelmingly bigger than the white minority, hungry for their own share of the country's riches?

Some twenty years ago, I read a novel I've never been able to forget by one of South Africa's most honored writers, J. M. Coetzee. That novel, Disgrace, painfully explores the effects the country's tangled and twisted racial history has made of its justice.  

Yesterday, the President of the United States of America proved himself to be the pig many of us believe him to be, treating his Oval Office guests as if they were themselves criminals--and using Trumped up facts to do it. 

We do South Africa best by honoring and praising statesmen like the man he hosted yesterday, President Cyril Ramaphosa. He deserves so much better than he got. 

Instead, he got Trump.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I saw. It was embarrassing to be an American, represented by a man like this.

Anonymous said...

Will Trump do the same treatment with BB Netanyahu?

"proved himself to be the pig?"

I have got nothing against hogs being hogs; or for that matter, non-whites being non-whites.

Sophia Loren could not get an American screening for her movie "Two Women."

Do you need to know more than that. I don't.

If Trump had not been a draft dodger, he could have got his racial conditioning in the military instead of from a television receiver.

Whites aren’t like other groups, who instinctively take their own side. Whites must be convinced their cause is moral for them to champion it. A blunt appeal to power and interests doesn’t work with whites, but that’s why we build wonderful societies.

thanks,
Jerry

Anonymous said...

It is written: "The rich will fade away even while they go about their business-----Like a wild flower.

Anonymous said...

I think South Africa and America share the same problem.

Those posing as a government of SA tried to get BB to appear b4 an international court. If they had not done that, they would have had clear sailing at the white house.

As Sasha Wilicourt posted "He came for free money and got a 4 K video.
As Pat Buchanan said -- b4 he got fired --the district of Columbia is Israeli occupied territory.

Both the Boars and the Dutch at New Amsterdam built their nation on the Canons of Dordt. The exile of Paul Krueger to Switzerland and the occupation of Manhattan island are parallel events. The Yiddish empire has occupied both nations ever since.

The problem is America and South Africa have been under Zionist occupation for a long time.

thanks,
Jerry


Anonymous said...

Just ask Black economist Glenn Loury.

Everything was going well for the economist until he crossed into politically dangerous terrain. During his May 9, 2025 interview with Tucker Carlson, Loury revealed that he was fired by the Manhattan Institute for criticizing Israel.